New Writer Added to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for additional rewrites.
As we approach that final trench run towards the impending release of The Force Awakens, eyes are now starting to turn towards the next Star Wars film on the horizon, Rogue One. Some of those eyes, in the form of Latino Review, have discovered another interesting change on the writing team for the first “Star Wars Story”.
When pre-production was first launched for Rogue One, The Book of Eli writer Gary Whitta was tapped to pen the screenplay. After turning in his finished draft, Chris Weitz of the recent live action Cinderella was brought in to finish it off. Now, it seems that they’ve brought in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation writer, Christopher McQuarrie for a two week polish on the final script.
Latino Review didn’t have details on exactly when McQuarrie was brought in, but being that he is known for action movies with a bit of a heist undertone such as The Usual Suspects and The Edge of Tomorrow, his involvement makes sense.
Rogue One is slated to be released December 16, 2016.
Source: Latino Review
why on earth did they start shooting if they were going to hire McQuarrie to polosh the script?
Sometimes things that need polish aren’t apparent until you go to shoot them and find out they don’t work.
I’m glad you’re here to tell us these things. 😉
No, seriously though thank you for clearing up some of the confusion.
You’re welcome 😉
This sounds more like: “Hey McQuarrie needs a few more bucks, let him rewrite one and two sentences and give him writing credits, will you?”
More likely dialogue polish. I’m guessing that it’s a case of things not sounding as good coming out of actors mouths than they sounded coming out of the characters mouths on paper.
So this isn’t something that should be ringing warning bells, right?
Nope, it happens quite literally all the time. Especially on big budget blockbusters and such.
McQuarrie is more an action expert though…I would imagine him rewriting those scenes.
Maybe re-working some of the action as opposed to dialogue yeah, I doubt that he’s actually re-writing anything significant though seeing as how they’re already well underway and the VFX pipeline for the movie will need to have a fairly significant lead time. Taking all of that into account though I still doubt that it’s anything more than some minor adjustments. It’s not like they stopped production for a script overhaul.
Why have they started shooting if McQuarrie hasn’t made the script yet?
They have a script. Did you not read the article or do you not understand what it meant when they state plainly that 2 people have already worked the script? He’s being brought on for 2 weeks (supposedly), so it’s probably to brush things up while they shoot or to make adjustments to the script based on things that came about once they started shooting. Sometimes things work better on paper and in headspace than they do once they’re made live. It could also just be to polish up dialogue to make things flow better. Point is that with him only being brought in for 2 weeks it’s more than likely not anything major and probably just to polish it a little bit as I previously stated.
ops sorry )= i’m a dummy sorry if I wasted your time PS. English is not my main language but that feels like a bad apology.
No worries, easy mistake especially if english isn’t your main. 🙂 All good. Also, no apologies necessary.
And so, do you really need to be an ass about his comment.
How was I being an ass? (S)He obviously either didn’t read the article or didn’t understand what it states, I asked why the confusion and then explained some potential reasons for the writer being brought in. I wasn’t an ass in any way, just matter-of-fact in my wording. The fact that you saw it as being an ass says a lot though.
If you weren’t being an ass then my apologies. As it is tough to determine intent and tone through typed words. I was just thinking maybe the person wasn’t an English speaking scholar and didn’t understand the wording. That’s all. Friends?
Alright. Fair enough, and no he isn’t native english speaker so while you misread my tone/intent you were on point about that part. 🙂
One of the issues as I’m sure you aware with comments and texting in general is that it’s hard to tell tone. He wasn’t being an ass he was saying that the reason for the 2 week gig is for nothing major, and it more than likely won’t have much of an effect on the shooting schedule.
Script Doctor
okay ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) thanks, I read it really fast. Sorry
Funny relationship Rouge One and Rouge Nation had. Glad they are friends now that Rouge One isn’t limited on what they can announce.
Not really funny at all. It’s actually pretty pathetic that the studio was so scared of a Star Wars movie that was almost 2 years away, that had yet to even finalize a script at the time, that they had to file court papers to keep Star Wars from Star Wars-ing until after MI:RN came out.
Lols at this story.
Gary Whitta must have really blown it.
Gary Whitta only got the writing gig because Disney thought he was “nerdy enough” to not drop the ball. These spinoffs will be worse than the prequels.
That’s impossible !
and the Han Solo spinoff will make everyone puke in their mouths.
Entirely possible
At least the Solo film is being helmed by Lord and Miller who are a couple studs at making bad ideas good.
I think that, outside of Human Centipede, you have to be really over-sensitive to throw up because of a film.
You’ve seen literally NOTHING of any of them. Why so quick to judge?
The original scriptwriter isn’t usually on set for rewrites they’ve usually moved on to other commitments by then. Not that I think GW is anything as a writer…
Latino Review = Daily Mirror.
With apologies to the Mirror.
They reported the Power Rangers movie would not be be a reboot of Mighty Morphin, but a sequel to current series Dino Charge mere days they themselves reported Kimberly, the Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, had officially been cast.
So basically they are the Supershadow of the ST?
This worries me a little bit. Filming has already started, and now they decide that the script needs 2 more weeks of work. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
As a point of reference, Casablanca had the script being written during its original filming. Some of the most famous lines were written during those collaborative sessions during the shoot. That said, we have no idea if this is good or bad news as to the quality of the film.
I dont how i feel about this movie overall, i wonder why they felt the need to tell a story about the heist of taking the plans of the death-star. I just don’t think it is necessary to go backwards on this type of story.
Um, so, Edge of Tomorrow is a heist movie now? um, okay?
Well- It had a smart yet simple plot, I guess “heist movie” is code for literally anything “not stupid”